Rust Belt

Super H Mike · Mar 30, 2018

Look what you guys are missing out on being outside the rust belt ! This is a trans dipstick tube from a 2003 F150.

Super H Mike · Mar 30, 2018

Went to add fluid and it ran out on the ground!

paul · Mar 30, 2018

I probably have some brake lines that look like that, when the shed thaws out enough i need to look why the summer pickup brake pedal goes to the floorboards.

Paul

matthies · Mar 30, 2018

Just another day here at the roads department, we have had aluminum Allison transmission housings eat through in a 4 year old truck. Just spent 5 grand on misc parts for an 2004 dump truck because of the rust. All so that the public can fly down the roads and be safe, when they should be at home.

Super H Mike · Mar 30, 2018

Agreed. Calcium Chloride on the roads, this is what we get.

flembo · Mar 30, 2018

Some of the newer vehicles don't even have one of those.

ss55 · Mar 30, 2018

It helps a lot to wash down the underside of vehicles every spring to rinse off as much salt as possible.

SodBuster87 · Mar 30, 2018

Mean while my sister in NY rubs it in by bragging about the weather........

Bruce from Can. · Mar 30, 2018

Hey , it is near 15 years old, what do you expect?

JDEM · Mar 30, 2018

I have replaced endless amounts of brake and gas lines with copper-nickel. Here in northern Michigan, many roads are salted in the summer - besides the winter stuff. In Europe - steel lines were banned years ago and for good reason.

451 CUBES · Mar 30, 2018

matthies,

"All so that the public can fly down the roads and be safe, when they should be at home"

I couldn't agree with you more. Not sure where you are at, but all of the fool's cars and better yet, 4 wheel drive trucks in the ditch along I-80 in eastern Iowa still two days after last Saturday's snow storm was quite a sight. Wonder how many of them (in the ditch) were going to a job vs. nowhere necessary.

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 30, 2018

I have a 99 F 250 and my engine dipstick tube rusted off and the differential cover got a hole. Replaced the converter 2 years ago and transmission cooler line twice.

greg oliver · Mar 30, 2018

Mattheis, I was in the shop repairing my truck after at least 12 hours of plowing. Roads were covered in snow and the phone rings. I answer and a lady asked if we were going to have the roads plowed as she needed to go to the store! Picture is our back up 99 IH truck we bought. I had robbed the fan clutch out of it to use on my truck after it seized up. We need to move the sander back another 2 feet it doesn't have enough traction with the way it's set up now.

GVSII · Mar 30, 2018

(quoted from post at 11:06:36 03/30/18) Just another day here at the roads department, we have had aluminum Allison transmission housings eat through in a 4 year old truck. Just spent 5 grand on misc parts for an 2004 dump truck because of the rust. All so that the public can fly down the roads and be safe, when they should be at home.

But But aluminum isn't supposed to rust.

matthies · Mar 30, 2018

Norfolk Nebraska, in northest Nebraska, is where I work, been with the state roads 18 years as a auto/diesel tech. Blue wrench is my friend along with Kroil, PB Blaster, and Deep Creep. We use salt brine, rock salt, and beet juice for making the rust work the best. We have more problems with wiring than anything else then the rust.

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